Maximal Being with Doc Mok

We're talking about the skin microbiome and it is wild how much it interconnects with your gut microbiome.  It's kind of interesting to make that connection, being able to do things to the skin by working on the gut microbiome and vice versa. Joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition, and Gut Health, is Dr. Yug Varma, the king of the skin microbiome, is the Cofounder & CEO of P...

The planet is not getting any bigger, but humanity's footprint on the planet keeps getting bigger. And one of the primary ways that we leave that footprint is through our food, and principally in the amount of meat that we eat. It just takes a lot of land, a lot of water, a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and more to raise and slaughter billions and billions of animals for food. But people want to...

The planet is not getting any bigger, but humanity's footprint on the planet keeps getting bigger. And one of the primary ways that we leave that footprint is through our food, and principally in the amount of meat that we eat. It just takes a lot of land, a lot of water, a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and more to raise and slaughter billions and billions of animals for food. But people want to...

Turducken and candied yams- these are just some of the extremes of the Thanksgiving meal that Doc Mok and Jacky P will be discussing in this podcast. Join us at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition, and Gut Health and hopefully you're all safe out there and get to see family and friends that you haven't seen for so long. Doc Mok an advanced GI doctor specializing in nutrition, gut health, and cancer....

It's so exciting to be learning about cocoa being a good thing. It's like imagining your favorite “bad” food is now good for you. And so for the listeners out there, this is gonna change your life because having an ability to make that wonderful pure dessert form without all the added junk, something that can help your body, help your health. Joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition, a...

In this short, fact-vomit episode, we're going to talk about something that scares everyone. It scares doctors, it scares patients. Obesity. Join Doc Mok and Jacky P as they talk about things someone can do to help work against obesity and weight gain. Topics - What does obesity mean? - Things that can help against obesity and weight gain Doc Mok an advanced GI doctor specializing in nutrition, gu...

The microbiome is composed of different organisms; bacteria, yeast, viruses, and actually some protozoa and some parasitic organisms that live in synergy with us. This existence has occurred since before the dawn of time, and actually the first human cell engulfed a bacterial cell and that's what became our mitochondria. These bacteria live within us, and they eat things that we eat, and they chan...

I'm sure immunity is a topic that is on all of our minds. Our immune system is valuable, it protects us, but when it doesn't have the right tools or knowledge, or it may be faced with something that confuses it, it may not do the right things for our body. So joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition, and Gut Health, is Gian-Carlo Torres, a mission-driven entrepreneur. He has spent the...

On this podcast we will exercise our Western as well as our more holistic sides to deal with a very common problem here in America, and that is pain. Joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition, and Gut Health is Dr. Dave Shirazi, an expert in sleep, temporomandibular joint (TMJ), and pain. Topics - Sleep apnea with connection to ADD and ADHD - Blood brain barrier leak - The core of pain...

There is so much truth behind the power of the stool. Your stool may be the secret behind weight loss, or why you're not seeing those weight loss gains that you're expecting. And so in this podcast, we're going to be talking about the microbiome, and how it affects your weight.   Topics -Calorie in, calorie out -What are the habits we should be doing to get us in the right direction for weigh...

You may be judging the title right from the get go saying like, look, there's not a one size fits all. But that's actually the point about what we're going to talk about. And that is the perfect human diet. We're gonna offer some perspectives today on human evolution and what people ate. As we are becoming modern men and women and also the role of our individual genetic biochemical and ancestral t...

From an evolutionary standpoint, we as human beings used to not have all the creature comforts that we do now. Our temperature controlled bedrooms, cars, workplace, and other places we usually spend our time on are kept at 68 to 72 degrees, where we’re most comfortable. So our bodies don't have an opportunity to do what we're fine tuned to perform, which is regulate our temperatures. Today at Maxi...

When COVID hit, a lot of people were experiencing financial stressors, life changers, interpersonal problems, because they were all confined to the same home. Some people are losing their jobs, there are so many stressors in society, that the incidence and the prevalence increase. It is hard to understand what this is about, it is a complex disease, a disease that has been happening since before C...

Today's topic is something some may find extremely important and very interesting. We're going to talk about sleep. So pay attention, because we know everyone out there is probably not sleeping the way they should be or could be. Joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition and Gut Health, is Dr. G, an expert in the field who worked as a hospitalist for several years. Then pursued Sleep Me...

It's really neat to see doctors that venture outside of conventional Western practices. There are all of these wonderful tools at our disposal that we learn nothing about, and I think acupuncture is one of those, so today we are going to talk about what it is and how it can benefit our health. Joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition and Gut Health, is Dr. David Miller, the medical dir...

I didn't learn this until I was a gastroenterologist, but men can have babies too. And I'm not talking about birthing another human being, I'm talking about food babies. Today we're talking about one of the relative alphabet soups of GI that's IBS, much different than inflammatory bowel disease or IBD. We're going to be talking about such a widespread topic, which affects so many of you out there....

We're going to be unpacking that dreaded C-word that people toss around the workplace. It’s not what you think. But the word, cancer. Cancer remains a leading cause of death here in America.  So we're going to talk about some of the things that you can do to prevent cancer from happening, what cancer is, and then we'll also get into the weeds about things that you can do that are a little mor...

Meditation is a practice where individuals use techniques such as mindfulness and others. You can do this in a number of other activities, where you focus the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity. Mindfulness is something that's often looked over when it comes to almost everything, mental health, being happy, pain management. We meditate and practice mindfulness to train the attention...

Chiropractors are what we call portal of entry providers, and some people would consider them primary care. A lot of people do not, but either way they are taking patients in without necessarily a referral for neuromusculoskeletal conditions, primarily those of the spine, and they are using conservative treatment methods, mainly those with hands on application or manual therapies, and that's where...

A lot of people have been sitting at home, bored, trying to find things to fill their time. So a lot of people are picking up some bad vices, whether that be alcohol, drugs, or even just that evening chocolate. Today's podcast we're going to key into the concept of addiction. Joining me today is my amazing co host, Jacky P. and a longtime friend, Chris Dorian. Chris Dorian is a licensed clinical a...

Celiac disease and gluten, it's a staple in the American diet. Corn and wheat comprise 80% of dietary sources whether it be fed to another animal, but we're noticing more and more that people are developing these sensitivities to gluten and developing things like celiac disease. Joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition and Gut Health, are general gastroenterologists Paurush Shah and Je...

It's colon cancer awareness month! Colon cancer remains the number three cause of cancer death in America. I really think that a lot of people are getting it younger because of what is happening to our food system. So unpacking the concept of colon cancer today, and joining us today at Maximal Being Fitness, Nutrition and Gut Health, is GI Jeff and of course my wonderful co host Jacky P. Topics -H...

Imagine this, you're a normal 20-18 something year old, you're going to soccer practice, you're going on dates, and you have the urgency to run to the bathroom, all of a sudden, you run in there and the toilet is just, SCARY. It looks like a horror movie. This is the everyday reality for people that suffer from inflammatory bowel disease. This is a very unique patient population and that they're v...

Everybody's got that friend you’ve just had around for years. You need them to do certain things in your life, but they're just kind of annoying, right? They just irk you. The pancreas is that friend in the organ world, it's pretentious, but you need it for so many valuable functions. So today we're going to be talking about how to keep your pancreas happy, and what happens when it becomes unhappy...

For decades America has been on a low carb phase and yet still Americans are getting bigger and heart disease is on the rise. So where did we go wrong? We're trying to fix things with this new fat revolution ketogenic diet approach. But the question is, why doesn’t fat and cholesterol consumed lead to fat on the outside and cholesterol in our blood vessels? So to unpack this myth today, joining me...